A companion to the Greek language

A COMPANION TO THE ANCIENT GREEK LANGUAGE......Page 5
Contents......Page 7
List of Figures......Page 10
List of Tables......Page 11
Notes on Contributors......Page 14
Symbols Used......Page 20
Abbreviations of Ancient Authors and Works......Page 21
Abbreviations of Modern Sources......Page 30
Linguistic and Other Abbreviations......Page 37
1 Introduction......Page 43
PART I The Sources......Page 51
2 Mycenaean Texts: The Linear B Tablets......Page 53
3 Phoinikēia Grammata: An Alphabet for the Greek Language......Page 67
4 Inscriptions......Page 89
5 Papyri......Page 104
6 The Manuscript Tradition......Page 111
PART II The Language......Page 125
7 Phonology......Page 127
8 Morphology and Word Formation......Page 146
9 Semantics and Vocabulary......Page 162
10 Syntax......Page 176
11 Pragmatics: Speech and Text......Page 193
PART III Greek in Time and Space: Historical and Geographical Connections......Page 211
12 Greek and Proto-Indo-European......Page 213
13 Mycenaean Greek......Page 231
14 Greek Dialects in the Archaic and Classical Ages......Page 242
15 Greek and the Languages of Asia Minor to the Classical Period......Page 255
16 Linguistic Diversity in Asia Minor during the Empire: Koine and Non-Greek Languages......Page 270
17 Greek in Egypt......Page 295
18 Jewish and Christian Greek......Page 309
19 Greek and Latin Bilingualism......Page 323
PART IV Greek in Context......Page 337
20 Register Variation......Page 339
21 Female Speech......Page 353
22 Forms of Address and Markers of Status......Page 369
23 Technical Languages: Science and Medicine......Page 380
PART V Greek as Literature......Page 397
24 Inherited Poetics......Page 399
25 Language and Meter......Page 412
26 Literary Dialects......Page 430
27 The Greek of Epic......Page 443
28 The Language of Greek Lyric Poetry......Page 466
29 The Greek of Athenian Tragedy......Page 483
30 Kunstprosa: Philosophy, History, Oratory......Page 497
31 The Literary Heritage as Language: Atticism and the Second Sophistic......Page 510
PART VI The Study of Greek......Page 525
32 Greek Philosophers on Language......Page 527
33 The Birth of Grammar in Greece......Page 541
34 Language as a System in Ancient Rhetoric and Grammar......Page 554
PART VII Beyond Antiquity......Page 567
35 Byzantine Literature and the Classical Past......Page 569
36 Medieval and Early Modern Greek......Page 581
37 Modern Greek......Page 606
Bibliography......Page 630
Index......Page 681